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I'm having some days off, and promised I'd forswear series. I've lived up to the promise so far, so I've been watching films:
1) El Bar, by Alex de la Iglesia (a Spanish film): a group of people find themselves marooned in a caff. And they can't go out for some time or else they'll get killed.
2) The Bothersome Man, a film from Norway. A man gets a job in an important city but nobody seems to be sensitive to anything there: love, death, simple things like chocolate, drinks or music seem not to matter at all. Excellent one.
3) Old Boy. A well-known Korean one. Dark. Tough. Weird. But excellent as well.
4) Son of the Bride. An Argentinian one. It's touched the core of me and made me feel like having a daughter, though that hasn't been the writer's overriding plan.
That is just one aspect of a horror film, tension, but scary? I found the Ring to be more scary.
It is very good though, I recommend it to everyone but it is also a film that should be watched in the cinema because in the cinema you will enjoy the same tension with lots of other people and you can feel the whole audience doing the same thing, like they are participating in the whole world inside the movie.
Clooney is a blackmarket weapons dude. A little bit melancholy. Quite good but not spectacular.
Annihilation
I completely understand why this got so much fanfare in the days before release. I also completely understand why that quickly dissipated.
ARQ
An interesting one. "A single idea done well" is usually my favourite type of scoff. This is a timey-wimey tale and I won't say any more for fear of spoilers. It started a bit naff and got better as it went along. It's by no means a classic but I quite enjoyed it overall.
Ex Machina
Interstellar
The Martian
I'm old-fashioned and still do disc rentals. For some reason everything they've sent me recently has been science fiction...
I liked them all, in different ways. Except Interstellar, which is a pile of poop and would've been much better if Steven Spielberg had directed it.
Pretty much as I expected - Gary Oldman is fantastic, but possibly a bit too exaggerated - I suspect the real Churchill was less of a bumbling drunk than he is portrayed, although it was good to see him as uncertain and self-doubting, given how easy it is to think of his success as a foregone conclusion when we know the result. The rest of the film is a bit flat - not positively bad, but very formulaic, with shallow lifeless characters and a cartoonish impression of Halifax in particular - he was not quite the weak appeaser as shown, in reality.
7/10 (Oldman 9/10, rest 6/10)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
I finally got around to watching it and it's fantastic in every way - the atmosphere and characterisation of Hyde in particular.
Fredric March is great and the extended scenes of Hyde with the show girl are really creepy/edgy.
And scenes such as where he's triggered by a cat going after a bird in [St James?] park just have that something about them.
1931 was a different world in so many ways to where we find ourselves today, there's a melancholy and insight in seeing our history.
"Come Inside My Mind ".
Brilliant, as he was. Gives you a bit of an insight to comedian's understanding of things... quirky as he was... hard to rate really as it doesn't try to be dramatic as a movie - it focuses on the person.
Pretty much like last documentary I've seen from them - "Andre The Giant" - well recommended and I encourage to watch and make your own opinion.
HBO makes IMHO the best television in this time and age. Documentaries and tv shows. By far.
Good. Not as good as #1, but a fun evening at the cinema. The visuals in the end-of-act-2 fight were spectacular.